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    William Boyle's Technicolor Brooklyn Noir

    William Boyle's Technicolor Brooklyn Noir

    The author's noirs capture the borough in all its madcap, desperate, violent complexity.

    By Daneet Steffens | March 3, 2020

    How to Write Believable, Realistic, and Responsible Violence

    How to Write Believable, Realistic, and Responsible Violence

    A thriller author shares 7 lessons for writing violence.

    By Ed Ruggero | March 3, 2020

    How to Be a Crime Novelist and a Parent...Without Losing Your Mind or Your Moral Compass

    How to Be a Crime Novelist and a Parent...Without Losing Your Mind or Your Moral Compass

    Everything you wanted to know about changing diapers and solving fictional murders but were afraid to ask.

    By Jason Pinter | March 2, 2020

    Life as a DJ Taught Me to Listen—and to Write

    Life as a DJ Taught Me to Listen—and to Write

    On growing up in the Bronx, and spinning stories in the basement.

    By Robert Desiderio | February 28, 2020

    Don't Go Into the Basement! (Let's Be Honest, We're Going Into the Basement)

    Don't Go Into the Basement! (Let's Be Honest, We're Going Into the Basement)

    What writing horror (and hearing noises in the night) taught me about the impulse to explore—even in the face of danger.

    By Darcy Coates | February 27, 2020

    How to Turn A Man into a Legend

    How to Turn A Man into a Legend

    Why I chose to take real-life Arctic explorer Matthew Henson, drop him in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance, and have him solve a murder.

    By Gary Phillips | February 25, 2020

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    Two Authors Talk Psychological Thrillers, Motherhood, and Maine

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    Unreliable Narrators Who Break Every Rule We Thought We Knew

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    The Difficult Art of Ending a Crime Fiction Series

    The Difficult Art of Ending a Crime Fiction Series

    Two authors—working from opposite ends of Florida—bring epic noir series to a close, and live to tell the tale.

    By Steph Post | February 12, 2020

    Worldbuilding: Crime and Fantasy Books Have More in Common Than You Might Think

    Worldbuilding: Crime and Fantasy Books Have More in Common Than You Might Think

    In noir, as in fantasy, it's all about finding the right details.

    By Kelly Braffet | February 11, 2020

    The New Wave of Thrillers Featuring Deeply Flawed Characters

    The New Wave of Thrillers Featuring Deeply Flawed Characters

    Readers want flaws. Lots of them. They make the stories human.

    By Christina McDonald | February 7, 2020

    How Raymond Chandler and the Tate-LaBianca Murders Inspired the Making of <em>Chinatown</em>

    How Raymond Chandler and the Tate-LaBianca Murders Inspired the Making of Chinatown

    The strange, unlikely events in 1969 that set Robert Towne on a course to write one of the greatest films ever made.

    By Sam Wasson | February 4, 2020

    Ten Books Where the Setting Is a Character

    Ten Books Where the Setting Is a Character

    From 1950s L.A. to Savannah's iconic squares, these books bring time and place alive in unforgettable ways.

    By Sarah Pinborough | February 4, 2020

    Carl Hiaasen: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

    Carl Hiaasen: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

    Discover the wild, corrupt, uproarious world of Hiaasen's Florida.

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    The Strange Rural Noir of Wilma Dykeman’s <em>The Tall Woman</em>

    The Strange Rural Noir of Wilma Dykeman’s The Tall Woman

    Rediscovering A Lost Classic of Mid-Century Literature

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